Background In 2011, RIN worked with a number of partners, including IOP Publishing, to produce a study on how physical scientists find, use and disseminate information. This study used a qualitative approach – interviews and focus groups – to understand groups of researchers working in...

This study was commissioned in response to a recommendation of the Finch Group in its second report in 2013 that reliable indicators should be gathered on key features of the transition to open access (OA) in the UK. The findings presented here are thus a...

Introduction

The Report of the Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings (94) (2012) – which has become known as the Finch Report - recommended a series of measures to accelerate and manage a transition to open access (OA) over an extended period that...

The report recommends that the U.K. embrace the transition to open access, and accelerate the process in a measured way which promotes innovation but also what is most valuable in the research communication ecosystem. Report of the Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research...